Build Strong and Unbreakable Network List!

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Your net­work is your net worth! One of the key to suc­cess is your net­work.  The net­work of friends, rel­a­tives and peers you are inter­act­ing, work­ing or befriend­ing in.  Whether you are a sales per­son, busi­ness­man or some­one that is hold­ing a nine-to-five job, it is very impor­tant to have a strong net­work to sup­port what­ever deci­sions you make.  Strong net­works not only pro­duce good leads and increase sales vol­ume, it also helps pro­vide lever­age or sup­port for major tasks at work.  How do you build a strong net­work that can sup­port you and goals then? Read the rest of this entry »


How to Get People Talking?

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Do you find your­self accept­ing the idea of attend­ing net­work­ing ses­sions or social gath­er­ings (or any other types of gath­er­ings)?  Why is that so?  The prob­lem lies in the neces­sity to talk to peo­ple.  Strik­ing con­ver­sa­tion can be dif­fi­cult to them.  Not to men­tion the need to main­tain the con­ver­sa­tion.  Most feel there will be a prob­lem when top­ics run dry, the con­ver­sa­tion becomes dif­fi­cult to fol­low through and the silence will make them feel uncom­fort­able.  It is def­i­nitely a prob­lem but how do we over­come this prob­lem?  Today, we will share with you five con­ver­sa­tional tips to get your part­ner and you feel­ing happy and inter­ested through­out the entire con­ver­sa­tion! Read the rest of this entry »


What Customers Really Want!

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Cus­tomers, either you really love them or you really hate them!  They are your salary, your organisation’s profit.  You need them to sur­vive! Yet cus­tomers are the peo­ple that give you the pain in the neck most of the time.  After meet­ings and meet­ings but they just give you new require­ments, new ideas and what do you know, new trou­bles for you to solve!  It does not apply only to the buy-and-sell rela­tion­ship.  Any­one can be cus­tomers to you.  What do your cus­tomers really want?  Are they always giv­ing you prob­lems?  How do we address their prob­lems and deliver what they really want? Read the rest of this entry »


6 Mistakes to Avoid in Emailing

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Often, we see peo­ple make mis­takes dur­ing email­ing.  You would have def­i­nitely seen some of them dur­ing your course of work.  These mis­takes although they look small but can have a detri­men­tal effect of your image when it is being com­mit­ted over and over again.  Gen­er­ally, the recip­i­ent will think that the sender is care­less, never reviews his email con­tent or plain rush­ing for time…  Today we are shar­ing with you mis­takes you should avoid and not end up in your organ­i­sa­tion list of care­less email senders! Read the rest of this entry »


4 Ways to Beef Up Communication Skills

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Com­mu­ni­ca­tion lies between the key link between peo­ple and get­ting work down.  It is essen­tial that we become pro­fi­cient in com­mu­ni­cat­ing.  How­ever, not all of us are born with the tal­ent in com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  We strug­gle to under­stand and even con­vey our mes­sage to the other party.  The lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills becomes a break­down between two par­ties and some­times being mis­in­ter­preted result­ing in mis­un­der­stand­ing or mis­aligned goals.  By focus­ing on lev­el­ling up our com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, we can bet­ter under­stand, bet­ter con­vey the mes­sage between two par­ties.  Here today, we give you a dif­fer­ent view point on how to beef up your com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills that touches on the tech­ni­cal aspect instead of the con­ven­tional “empa­thetic lis­ten­ing”. Read the rest of this entry »


Be Productive — Stay Healthy (Part 2)!

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We do not want to spend our time wasted recov­er­ing from minor ill­ness.  Nor do we want to spend­ing addi­tional time strug­gling with minor cold and flu.  There­fore, it is essen­tial for us to watch out for changes to our body con­di­tions.  It is always wise to lis­ten to our body, know our lim­its and get ample amount of rest when we start to feel our body “falling apart”.  Besides tak­ing our­selves at work, we need to main­tain a healthy body out­side of work as well.  Our pro­duc­tive depends on our health!  Find out more with our addi­tional tips to keep you healthy in and out of work! Read the rest of this entry »


Things to Keep You Busy on a Business Trip

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Trav­el­ling between offices of dif­fer­ent regions have become a norm in the cur­rent busi­ness con­text.  Be it we fly to visit our sis­ter office or to meet client, we are spend­ing a fair amount of time trav­el­ling.  The prob­lem with trav­el­ling is that much of the time is wasted where you can­not really do any­thing.  That decreases our pro­duc­tiv­ity and sales!  There­fore, we need to take every oppor­tu­nity we have in the jour­ney and max­i­mize our time to get things done.  Here are a few things we find use­ful to occupy the time in dur­ing trav­el­ling. Read the rest of this entry »


14 Ways to Stay Focus at Work

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How do you stay focus at work?  There are so much dis­rup­tions and inter­rup­tions around you, dis­al­low­ing to stay focus with the piece of work in front of you.  Not men­tion­ing that we fall prey into pro­cras­ti­na­tion, leav­ing our impor­tant work to be done some other day.  Nowa­days, we have to rec­og­nize that we can­not decrease the amount of dis­trac­tions com­ing in every­day.  How can we stay focus, min­i­mize inter­rup­tions and dis­trac­tions and get our job done on time? Read the rest of this entry »


Don’t Judge the Book by its Look!

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Every­one has a fatal flaw of pre-judgement.  We always judge too quickly about some­one on their social sta­tus, achieve­ments and capa­bil­i­ties when we first approach them.  This is some­what unavoid­able and ingrain in our men­tal mod­els.  What lies behind their mask may be some­thing totally oppo­site to what you always believe.  He may not be what you think either from a good point or bad point of view.  Find out what you maybe think­ing of a per­son here. Read the rest of this entry »


Answer the 4 Most Common Interview Questions in a Breeze!

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There are some ques­tions that tend to pop up dur­ing almost every job inter­view no mat­ter where you head to or which com­pany you applied for.  Let’s start with the bad news; the bad news about these ques­tions – they can be really dif­fi­cult to answer at times.  How­ever, there is also the part on the good news – because they are so com­mon, you can ade­quately pre­pare them in advance before you face the real thing. Read the rest of this entry »